MOON DUO (yes)

haw, that video should have a disclaimer -- "from the makers of portlandia" or somesuch. anyway, this album rocks!

yeah -- it smells strongly of portlandia
but just think about the leotards and the gyrating rather than the guru or the window (or the mustache dude) and it gets better
better yet don't watch it at all and take a look at this cover

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2012/08/Moon-Duo-Circles-608x608.jpg

going to miss the show due to a real analysis exam tomorrow morning so i am crossing my fingers it is not too good /sorry robyn

xp yeah that's great. like steeleye span on acid

innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry: fuzzed-out pop packaged itself as though it were mind-warping psych. Also: the american apparel aesthetic of the video above. Still, decent song.

oh man post above made me think about clinic for the first time in a decade. what happened to them?

innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry: fuzzed-out pop packaged itself as though it were mind-warping psych.

rhythmic pop can be mind warping too if you give in to the groove

^ the california way

King Khan! who here hates on King Khan I will stab you

I feel Hurting's sentiment. "Psych" is a word that gets thrown about a lot these days. I love Moon Duo though; even though it's trippy-by-the-numbers synth-driven drone-pop, it's trippy enough for my liking.

my first thought was that it was dance music to satisfy the robots and the freaky people alike. your bottom half can follow the beat and your top half can freak out to the guitar. that's good times right there.

That cover is kind of terrible but I love it.

i see 'psych' used in a lot of pr material/press releases and then i go listen to a song or two online and am like fuck you, pr people, this is just indie rock

i guess 'psych' is the new 'edgy'

or, well, 'indie'

totally agree but buzzword overuse/misuse is not a new problem and it's not going to get in the way of my enjoyment of the moon duo.

totally

i do think there are psych elements to moon duo tho!

That cover is kind of terrible but I love it.

the cover is amazing IMO!

I've noticed 'psych' or 'psychedelic' being appended to indie bands much less than it used to be in, say, the Elephant 6 era... Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, I like indie shit with psychy bits.

psych enough for me! the drum machine-iness might bring down the psych quotient, i dunno.

I still see "psych"/"psychedelic" on the label of like every fifth rock/indie promo CD I review. But I see a lot of things on promo labels.

this is the dude from Wooden Shjips, right?

love their first EP...i would call it psych in a Bardo Pond / trippier Black Mountain vein. I.e. laid-back, groovin' psych.

just had a listen to the new LP via spotify...i dig. definitely poppier, though it's still nice and fuzzy.

QFT: "buzzword overuse/misuse is not a new problem and it's not going to get in the way of my enjoyment of the moon duo."

yeah i mean it's PR shorthand for "there's some fuzzy guitar reverb-y vocals and maybe a swirly organ every now and then"...but have we ever really defined psych? WHAT IS PSYCH.

i think that what we can learn from pr shorthand is that pr shorthand is hilarious and mostly wrong

psych is what you make it man

(pr people not allowed to make it)

pr people too uptight to give in to the groove

here's something from the PR email i just received
"A laid-back cavalcade of synth washes, toms, layered vocals and organic instrumentation, "SONG" perfectly showcases ARTIST’s ambitions to bring together futuristic soundscapes with hook-laden direct songs."
sounds kinda psyche-y!

i read something recently that contained a sentence something like "dare we say they sound like early Hawkwind mixed with Can?!" and seriously, considering the band they were talking about, my answer is no, you do not.

So I should spend my hard earned music journalist dollars on this?

totally! it's like hawkwind meets can meets the beatles!

[snark aside: yeah, it's great!]

Early Hawkwind or late Hawkwind?

i don't hear a ton of psych in this, although i guess any psych would be by way of paisley underground dreampop.

... as i've said elsewhere, it's suicide + the more minimalist aspects of spacemen 3 + galaxie 500/luna.

see i'm probably part of the problem -- suicide, spacemen 3 and g-500 are all psychedelic bands to me.

BUT WHAT IS PSYCH

i really don't know. maybe i should impose a self-ban on using the term.

it's got too many drum machine bass drums + snares to be psych. drum machine hi-hats/shakers are acceptable.

suicide, spacemen 3 and g-500 are all psychedelic bands

real talk

any drum machine built after 1978 = not psych

This album is rad as fuck and I am SO EXCITED TO GO SEE THEM ON SATURDAY

lol we need crut's 77 laws of psych

this was a good show, v entertaining, def some psychrock elements and many other elements
nice light projection show (def psychedelic)
young people danced in front of the stage
i swayed a bit
DRUM MACHINES
i only laughed twice at the beatz, i mean, in an entertained, nice way. sometimes things are funny when you listen to yr fair share of electronic music.
v happy i went :)

Would I like Moon Duo?

MAybe? Check out the video upthread. It's a pretty fair representative.

I heard Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down A Dream" yesterday and it made me think of Moon Duo

on first impression the new one feels a little tame compared to Mazes.

i love tom petty

Moon Duo makes a mix for The Fader. Said mix is an enjoyable listen:

http://www.thefader.com/2012/10/30/download-moon-duos-fader-mix/

Tracklist:
1. Aphrodite’s Child – Do It
2. Mustafa Ozkent Orchestra – Dolana
3. Benny Soebardja And Lizard – Candle Light
4. Muddy Waters – Herbert Harper’s Free Press News
5. The Outsiders – CQ
6. Vangelis – We Were All Uprooted
7. Jang Hyun – Pushing Through The Fog
8. Magic Lantern – Dark Cicadas
9. Pink Floyd – Beset By Creatures Of The Deep
10. David Crosby – Cowboy Movie
11. Herbcraft – Road To Agartha
12. Achim Reichel and Machines – Das Echo Der Gegenwart

Rose City Band is definitely great too! Yeah, it's been a really good year for Ripley, especially considering the two vastly different directions he's swinging.

definitely a shift with this one. Sonic Boom's second career as a mixing-engineer-for-hire continues to produce some interesting results

New Rose City Band track sounds excellent

https://rosecityband.bandcamp.com/album/summerlong

twangier than the first and i’m all for it.

YES to this new Black Sabbath "Planet Caravan" cover, holy shit

https://sacredbonesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-this-that-stands-before-me

YES to this new Black Sabbath "Planet Caravan" cover, holy shit

https://sacredbonesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-this-that-stands-before-me

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